Getting Paid For a Successful Marriage

Should You Get a Monetary Reward For Staying Married?

UTango is an online consumer loyalty and rewards program for singles, engaged couples, and newlyweds married less than three years. The program works by rewarding members with Tango Bucks for shopping with the program's 300 or so merchants.

Once a married member chooses a plan, their marriage must stay in tact for the entirety of the program and maintain a minimum balance of accrued Tango Bucks. The cash rewards can be up to $10,000 at your tenth anniversary, $100,000 at your twentieth, and $1 million at your thirtieth.

The website's founder, Jim Miller, said "the whole premise of this company is based on the foundation of marriage and being committed to your marriage. It's the only consumer rewards program in the world that can make you a millionaire."

From my perspective this is a no brainer.
If I read this right, all I have to do is spend money I alreay spend with retailers I already shop with and so long as I earn enough pooints and stay married I get paid, sign me up. In fact, I just did sign up.
I'm not even marreid yet, but all I know is between my school loans and trying to save for a new house I barely have two extra nickles to rub together, let alone invest in my IRA and I make a very good living.
As I see it, this program is not about trying to bribe people to stay married, rather it is rewarding those that do. Bonus! I have sevaeral buddies who are married and none of them have ever said it's easy, in fact every single one of them says its hard to be a good husband, dad and spouse.
As for whether or not this company will be here 30 years from now who knows, in fact will any of us be here 30 years from now? I am in the investment banking industry and my experience leads me to believe that a much larger company will aquire uTango for its innovative business model, so I'm not too concerned. Just wish I had thought of it first.
In any event, I didn't have to pay anything to join. So like I said in the beginning...It's a no brainer.

I don't see anything wrong with signing up when you get married (or before), because I happen to shop online already, and anything that can even possibly get me rewards for what I'm already doing sounds good to me. I don't think anyone is going to stay married just because of this site, but if you happen to then why not make it work for you in other ways? I don't plan on getting married unless it's for life, so what is there to lose?

I always joke that we should get to have a still married shower after ten years of marriage. Definitely a second honeymoon, although on our ten year mark I was 9+ months pregnant. Maybe at 15 years. :)

The likelihood of the company being around that long is slim to none. HOWEVER, I think that people today give up on their marriages too quickly, so maybe a cash incentive would help people to stick around and work through their problems instead of turning to divorce so quickly.

Isn't someone who gets and stays married to another person for money and other material goods usually referred to as a "gold-digger?" Aside from that this discriminates against same-sex couples as they cannot produce the needed marriage licenses (minus residents of MA) this program requires for membership.

media surrounding marriage is kinda weird lately. has anyone else noticed how all the people in commericials are married these days, and if it's only one person inthe commercial, theres a shot to show a wedding ring. very strange...like this article

I'm sorry married already get tax advantages and social advantages. What about people like my sister or my dad who became widows/widowers they had no say in the ending of their marriage - and now my sister is suddenly lumped in as a single parent by choice. And she loses the advantages of being married because her husband died.
My grandparents stayed married for 70 torturous years. They hated each after the first year - but their family told them you stick it out until death. Miserable marriage - a miserable place for my dad to grow up - to miserable elderly people waiting for the other to kick off. And I guess finally my grandfather won because my grandmother died.
It's a stupid idea - money cannot fix the misery of a bad marriage.